After ten years and more than seven billion dollars of investment, Plan Colombia (PC) has been singled out as a successful model of bilateral cooperation. Although it was originally formulated as an expanded and improved version of the counternarcotics cooperation between Bogotá and Washington already in force since the 1980s, in practice and above all since the rupture of the peace negotiations with the FARC in 2002, PC has functioned as a counterinsurgency strategy and tool to strengthen the state in which the “war on drugs” has
